What's the difference between sciatica and sciatical?
Sciatica
Definition:
(n.) Neuralgia of the sciatic nerve, an affection characterized by paroxysmal attacks of pain in the buttock, back of the thigh, or in the leg or foot, following the course of the branches of the sciatic nerve. The name is also popularly applied to various painful affections of the hip and the parts adjoining it. See Ischiadic passion, under Ischiadic.
Example Sentences:
(1) The main clinical symptom was pain, usually sciatica, while neurological symptoms were less common than they are in adults.
(2) The diagnosis of piriformis muscle syndrome, an unusual cause of sciatica, is difficult.
(3) The correlation of posterior intervertebral (facet) joint tropism (asymmetry), degenerative facet disease, and intervertebral disc disease was reviewed in a retrospective study of magnetic resonance images of the lumbar spine from 100 patients with complaints of low back pain and sciatica.
(4) A 68-year-old hypertensive male suffering from acute sciatica with pronounced motor disturbances and urinary retention, was found to be suffering from aneurysm of the hypogastric artery.
(5) The main conclusions drawn in relation to decision making are as follows: low-back pain is more frequent than sciatica or intermittent claudication, but the latter is more disabling; acute attacks are generally more disabling than chronic pain, and the frequency may be more closely related to poor prognosis than the duration; radiologic findings are of little value in differentiating the incidence and degree of the symptoms during life; myelographic or peridurographic abnormalities do not always suggest poor prognosis.
(6) Eleven patients with brucellosis presented with neurological features closely simulating transient ischaemic attacks, cerebral infarction, acute confusional state, motor neuron disease, progressive multisystem degeneration, polyradiculoneuropathy, neuralgic amyotrophy, sciatica and cauda equina syndrome.
(7) The results show that environmental factors account for more than 80% of the etiology of sciatica, and more than 90% in the case of patients admitted to the hospital.
(8) In the presence of osteoarthritis in the knee, hip, or hand, LBP was prevalent (adjusted odds ratio [OR], 5.3; 95% confidence interval [CI], 4.1-6.9), but sciatica was not (OR, 1.1; 95% CI, 0.7-1.7).
(9) Treatment of intervertebral disc herniation associated with spondylolisthesis is not different from common procedures concerning indication for surgery and surgical technique as far as sciatica is not related to retrolisthetic soft tissue or the posterior edge of the vertebral body.
(10) Previously, a major limitation to percutaneous disc decompression to relieve symptoms of sciatica was the inability to approach the L5-S1 level.
(11) Three-level, posterolateral, extradural discography was performed on the side opposite the sciatica.
(12) A controlled trial of continuous lumbar traction in the treatment of back pain and sciatica showed similar improvements in both the treated group (weighted traction) and the control group (simulated traction).
(13) In addition, many assumptions, valid in patients with acute pain cannot be extrapolated to patients with chronic sciatica.
(14) The indications are leg pain greater than back pain (sciatica) and failure of all conservative therapy.
(15) With an increased interest in sporting activity, particularly among the older population, together with the appreciation of the importance of "bony entrapment" as a cause of sciatica, so the need has arisen to develop a simple, noninvasive, reliable, and reproducible method of determining whether leg pain is of radicular or referred origin.
(16) During a 5 year period 50 patients with chronic low back pain, with or without sciatica due to a proven lumbosacral disk lesion, underwent a spinal fusion using the Boucher method of screw fixation of the facet joints.
(17) In the present study, fasting and postprandial blood glucose determinations, as well as 14 other parameters, were analyzed in 88 patients with classical sciatica, 27 with crural neuralgia, and 42 with only back pain.
(18) was compared with that of placebo in 36 patients with acute lumbago-sciatica without root involvement in the form of paresis.
(19) Tenoxicam administered orally, rectally or parenterally is an effective analgesic and anti-inflammatory agent for the symptomatic treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis and various rheumatic conditions such as tendinitis, bursitis, sciatica, back pain and gouty arthritis.
(20) The onset of bladder and rectal paralysis with saddle anaesthesia should be viewed with a high index of suspicion in a patient with backache and sciatica.
Sciatical
Definition:
(a.) Sciatic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sixteen patients were operated on for lumbar pain and pain radiating into the sciatic nerve distribution.
(2) The results of conventional sciatic nerve stretching tests are usually evaluated regardless of patient age, gender or movements of the hip joint and spine.
(3) Six patients, two of whom developed sciatic neuropathy, demonstrated complete flattening of the SSEP.
(4) Ulcers due to neurectomy with excision of the sciatic nerve are more severe than those due to tenotomy and can be inhibited by a single dose of ACTH.2.
(5) The authors studied the effects of varying Na+ and Ca++ concentrations and of replacing H2O with D2O in Ringer's solution upon the actions of general and local anesthetics on isolated frog sciatic nerves.
(6) Chemonucleolysis is a procedure in which an enzyme is injected into the intervertebral disc for the purpose of alleviating sciatic pain.
(7) Light microscope autoradiography revealed the development of specific silver grains in the medial layer of epineurial and perineurial arteries in sections of sciatic nerve exposed either to [3H]DHA or [3H]QNB.
(8) However, compositions of groups IV and V in sciatic motor axons differed significantly from those of the optic system.
(9) Eight to 10 weeks later the sciatic nerves on both sides were labelled with HRP-WGA.
(10) to rats and the sciatic motor conduction velocity (Y): Y = 57.1--1.091 X.
(11) Sciatic nerve branches (lateral and medial) of anesthetized rabbits were stimulated to produce single contractions or co-contraction at the ankle and simultaneous bilateral joint movements.
(12) The sciatic nerve was cut as close to, or as far from the extensor digitorum longus muscles as possible.
(13) Endoneurial fluid pressure (EFP) was recorded by an active, servo-null pressure system after a glass micropipette was inserted into rat sciatic nerve undergoing wallerian degeneration.
(14) Lead levels in sciatic nerve appeared to increase rapidly during the first few weeks of exposure and then decline to a lower plateau.
(15) Thus there is a significant postnatal loss of axons from rat sciatic nerve.
(16) The accumulation of P0 protein in the nerve correlates extremely well with the degree of myelination in sciatic nerve.
(17) The data suggest that nearly 20% of all DRG neurons in the sciatic nerve supply muscle afferents.
(18) Rat extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscles were examined after colchicine treatment of the sciatic nerve.
(19) The changes of T cell subsets and Ia-positive cells in the sciatic nerve during the course of experimental allergic neuritis (EAN) in Lewis rats were studied using immunohistochemical techniques.
(20) Ischemia for 30 min postmortem or in deoxygenated Ringer's solution resulted in marked depletion of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and creatine phosphate (CP) and an increase in lactate (LAC) of sciatic-tibial nerve of adult male Sprague-Dawley rats.